X, the senile old b@gger doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, but your post is right on. F1 has reached the point where such insanity ALMOST makes sense.xpensive wrote:However said with tounge in cheek by the old f**t, it highlights the next to desperate need for F1 to improve the spectacle, unless the viewers soon will be counted within F1T's distinguished members. With the media competition of today's, F1 is in serious trouble. When I was young and handsome, which is a few years ago, everybody I knew watched the Sunday race. Not anymore.
MrE speaks from a certain amount of xperience here, as a team-owner for almost twenty years he knows that rain is indeed "the great equalizer", emphasizing driver's skills and courage. Except in case of Alain Prost perhaps.
Me, I think we need sections of track that drop or rise on hydraulic pistons, sort of like "Whack-a-mole." For added thrills, a sniper will shoot at the tires of passing cars. And one car, chosen at random, will have a live cobra wrapped around the brake pedal. Now we're getting nowhere!
